An alumnus is donating news transcripts from the 1969 Willard Straight Hall takeover as part of an archive of 50 years of records and transcripts WVBR-FM is donating to Cornell Library on Oct. 4. (Sept. 30, 2009)
In Bulgaria, the Cornell-affiliated American Research Center in Sofia facilitates academic research and fosters collaboration with researchers in former communist countries. (Sept. 30, 2009)
Two Cornell students spent part of last summer delivering rugged, child-friendly laptop computers to a school in Senegal and showing teachers how to use them. (Sept. 30, 2009)
The Arecibo Observatory provides 'unmatched precision and accuracy' in detecting asteroids or comets that could hit the Earth, says a report by the National Academy of Sciences. (Sept. 29, 2009)
According to a new Cornell study, an optimized flapping wing could actually require 27 percent less power than its optimal steady-flight counterpart at small scales. (Sept. 29, 2009)
A team of interdisciplinary researchers from Cornell and Ithaca College will study architecture and social interaction in an early civilization on Cyprus in a federally funded four-year project. (Sept. 29, 2009)
Nellie J. Brown, director of the ILR School's Workplace Health and Safety Programs, discusses how to keep the workplace safe and prevent on-the-job violence. (Sept. 29, 2009)
Cornell doctoral candidates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields have secured $2.3 million in research funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (Sept. 28, 2009)
The chemistry Nobel laureate has received an extra year tagged onto his regular three-year research grant, thanks to federal stimulus funds. (Sept. 28, 2009)
Five more Cornell faculty members have received Faculty Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation, some with federal stimulus funding. (Sept. 28, 2009)
To see how research can serve the public in urban and rural areas, the undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture turned to Cornell Cooperative Extension in New York City, Sept. 25. (Sept. 28, 2009)